Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1887-03-31
CHANGING RAsH.
The New-Yenr's.DGY OF Landlord
aud Teumnts
Er IN, Il Varv Evantn1 M Ertd av

From Every Evening OF Friday.
The wayfaring man who pervaded the
streets of tho city today in casting his
eye up thoroughfare would light upon
movin'. At such times ss he glanced his
eye down the street it ran plumb against
n movin'. The earth itself moved and
the moving spirit 80 permeated the air that
ii was not difficult feat to almost
imagine with Brother jasper that ''de sun
do move" Why this moving scene? For
which overhaul your revised statutes. aud
when found make a note on, as Captain
Outtle says. There Is nothing very new
in a moving. Try it. You'n find it old
enough before you have reunited the
rheumatic hedstead or refitted tine nimbie
slat, re-ereoted that chestnut Of the occa-
sion, the ever present stove pipe, separated
the baby and the molassts and renewed
the crockery. II makes one gasp for
breath to think of the time Noah
must have had when be moved
his superRbundant Effects into
the ark for his cruise TO
Ararat and then moved them out again.
Moving in the city is not like moving in
the country. Reasons various. The
yeomanry of the countryside usually as-
sembles. the work is done with o long
pull, strong pull and pull altogether,
and the occasion develops into festival
instead Of a prologue to q funeral. Be-
sides, the performance is rendered more
interesting by reason of the diversified
character of the properties to be trans
planted. Here we have in addition to
the household goods and chattels,
The frisky colt, the four-toothed rake,
The RriudstOne gray, the blow,
The gobbler proud the muskrat trap,
The saw-buck and the sow.
But after all, though the country people
have had their share of the pleasures or
miseries of the observanees of the season,
we have chiefly to do with those who live
and move in the city and for whom the
occasion holds no poetry. II they get
anything out of it except hard work it
will be most likely heavy GOLD and
doctors bill Of commensurate avoirdus
pois. Yet, despite its drawbacks, the
number of people who did it to-day was as
great, If not greater, than in former
years. As was said By householder, in
talking on this subject, che average renter
will content himself in domicile about
two years, by which time he will
become thoroughly dissatisfied either
with the house or the landlord
thereof and will take up his bed and
walk. As O general thing it will be found
that the birds of passage among house.
keepers avail themselves of this inahen-
able right every other year, and this is
not an off year. Therefore the furniture
carmen have been reaping rich harvest
during the past two or three days and
many other teams have been brought into
requisition that are not usually devoted to
the carrying trade outside of special lines
of merchandise. This widespread ten
dency to fit from an old domestic twig
to new one does not apply, however, to
business people and places, among which
class there have been less changes than
usual, and few important ones. Business
men are governed by other influences and
most of them seem to be pretty we'll sat.
isfied where they are, or at least have not
seen an opportunity to do better.
The 25th of March Is the New Year Of
the landlord and tenant, even though it is
seldom q happy new years day. Old
Boreas generally manages to make it
unpleasant and hazardous The date Is
also Just one week before All Fools Day,
which is observed in many states as the
time for disappearing and bobbing up
serenely in some other neighborhood.
Whether the name of All Fools Day is
particularly adapted as descriptive of the
| proceedings then carried on furnishes
food for rumination. There is, however, a
pleasure to be found on moving day in the
reflection, amid the unpleasantnesses, of
raw atmosphere and chaotic confusion, that
1t will not be ever thus and that in q few
short days or weeks at most the bluebirds
will sing, the buds unfold and the roses
come again. So let it be hoped that those
who have been harassed and tormented
by the demands of the day will cheerily
set up the household gods upon the new
hearthstones and start the new year of
tie housekeeper there in peace and sweet
| oontentment.